Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on December 22. Check what happened today in history here.

Nov. 20 is the 324th day of 2025r. It is also World Children’s Day established in 1954 to promote international togetherness, awareness and improving children’s welfare. It’s just one of the special ...

British-born violinist Freya Creech just marked her one-year anniversary in Tucson. It was a year ago January that she and her American-born husband Logan Richardson took a giant leap of faith and ...

The fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with fewer than 1.6 children being born per woman, federal data released Thursday shows. The U.S. was once among only a few developed ...

Turns out Beethoven didn’t just sound intense — he looked it, too. Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, scientists say they’ve finally pieced together what the famously moody maestro ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was one of the most influential and important composers whose life spanned the Classical and Romantic periods. His life began in Bonn, Germany in 1770. He was one of three ...

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This is the anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. Beethoven is renowned as a great composer. Many people across the world know his name, that he wrote his best music after he became profoundly ...

When it comes to revisiting older works, musicians have a "golden opportunity," says Jon Batiste. "You can connect dots that were never connected before." That's what Batiste is doing in his new album ...

The Grammy-winning musician discusses his new genre-scrambling album, and his optimism in the face of President Trump's return: "Whatever is the darkest ... force against your wellbeing is also the ...